The Witness Beneath

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When a heavy rainfall unearths a human hand on the edge of Heysham Nature Reserve retired detective George Mallory finds himself back in the world he thought he'd left behind. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The discovery draws Inspector Harmony Freeman to the scene and back into the shadow of the man who once mentored her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Freeman and her team sift through decades of silence the lines between past and present blur she discovers a web of lost girls forgotten protests and men whose charm once masked brutality.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Old loyalties resurface and evidence long-buried begins to breathe again. And the closer she gets to the truth the more she suspects that George knows something he never put in his reports-something the ground has been keeping for him all these years.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Haunting lyrical and rooted in the salt-bitten north <em>The Witness Beneath</em> traces how secrets buried in earth can surface again to demand justice. The past never sleeps-it only waits for the right storm.</strong></p>